"I never knew what I was getting into," said Ted Burdacki, who traded his job as an electrician for one in clamming.

HARSTINE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — John King plunges his arm up to his shoulder into the mudflats of Puget Sound, roots around and soon pulls from the muck the world’s largest burrowing clam. The mollusk ...

LILLIWAUP, Wash. — Hama Hama Oysters on the Hood Canal occasionally invites oyster lovers to gather them at their source.